Aging and Health – Try Healthy Nuts to Boost Your Longevity

Staying Young And Healthy With Healthy Nuts?

Believe it or not, the first created human beings who inhabited this planet, Adam and Eve, already had healthy nuts in their diet. In the Genesis, God provided them fruits that bear seeds that we now know as nuts. After thousands of years, we now understand why God never failed to create this fruit and seed in one. And a handful of it a day would never let you go wrong. Put healthy nuts in your diet!

A HEARTy Snack

Almonds, macadamia, pistachio nuts, walnuts, and hazelnuts are not just for the appetite, they also are great sources of a number of health benefits. The studies of the Seventh Day Adventists during the 1990s first elevated the status of healthy nuts to its consumers. The study of this religious group in Loma Linda, California indicated that those who eat healthy nuts live two and a half years more than those who do not.

(The Seventh Day Adventist is a religious group that advocates healthy living by not smoking and drinking, and having a vegetarian diet. Members of this religious domination who live in Loma Linda live 5-10 years longer)

Eating Health Nuts is NOT Nuts!

Nuts are said to contain Omega 3 fatty acids. These are unsaturated fatty acids that may decrease the risk of acquiring coronary heart disease. People who eat five times or more of it every week had roughly a 50 percent decrease in risk of dying from heart disease as compared to those who eat only nuts once a week. Those who eat one to four times in a week reduced their risk of acquiring the heart disease by 25%.

Recently, researchers also found out that walnuts and almonds can lower the blood levels of bad cholesterol which can lead to cardiovascular diseases. Besides its protective effect on the heart, this fruit has a very low glycemic index. In fact, healthy nuts are now being recommended by many dietitians to patients with diabetes mellitus 2.

KEEPING YOU AND YOUR BRAIN YOUNG

Usually, what’s beneficial to the heart is also favorable to the brain. Nuts are not just a hearty snack but also a brain food. It helps keep your arteries clear so it lessens the risk of clogging arteries which can lead to stroke. Healthy nuts also promote the production of precursors of serotonin, a neurotransmitter, which improves the mood, and reduces depression.

One ounce of nuts is the recommended amount to eat. That is equivalent to 24 almonds or 12 walnuts. Nuts are full of calories so be careful in eating too much of eating pleasure. Eating more than one ounce is fine unless you replace unhealthy high-caloric foods in exchange for nuts.

Here’s the deal: those who eat one ounce of healthy nuts five times a week become 3.3 years younger for the males, and 4.4 years for the females.

In addition, you would also live two to three years longer compared to those who don’t.

WHAT SHOULD YOU EAT?

Well, raw, unroasted, unsalted healthy nuts are best for your body.

Almonds are not just tasty but are also beneficial because they are alkaline-formers even though they are high in protein. Having alkaline is good for the body because we need to keep up with the high acidic content of the body (which is the result of the oxygenation of all that we eat).

Walnuts are the healthy nuts that have the most abundance of Omega-3 fatty acids. Walnuts are the kind that is beneficial to the diabetics.

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